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Paige Amormino, PhD

PhD

I received my PhD in Psychology from Georgetown in 2025. Before coming to Georgetown, I graduated with honors from Princeton University in 2019, where I majored in Psychology. I then worked as a research coordinator at the University of Rochester with Dr. David Dodell-Feder where I studied the effects of reading fiction on social and moral cognition. I currently study the intersection of altruism, morality, and social decision-making. I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow in the Prevention and Methodology Training program working in Dr. Daryl Cameron’s Empathy and Moral Psychology Lab in the Department of Psychology and with Dr. Joel Segel in the Department of Health Policy and Administration. My research interests include prosocial decision-making, moral reasoning, and social psychology.

Recent Publications

Amormino, P., Venticinque, J. S., & Marsh, A. A.

(2025).

The altruistic personality: Insights from research with extraordinary altruists

In: Current Opinion in Psychology, 65, 102055.

Amormino, P., Graue, A. E., Marsh, A. A., & Wilson, A. V.

(2025).

Development and Validation of the Social Discounting Task: Short Form

In: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251328706.

Amormino, P., Kagel, A., Li, J. L., & Marsh, A. A.

(2024).

Close relationship partners of impartial altruists do not report diminished relationship quality and are similarly altruistic

In: Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–11.

Law, K.F., Amormino, P., Marsh, A. A., O’Connor, B.B.

(2024).

Ethical reasoning versus empathic bias: a false dichotomy?

In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(1), 1-4.

Rhoads, S. A., O'Connell, K., Berluti, K., Ploe, M. L., Elizabeth, H. S., Amormino, P., Li, J., Dutton, M. A., VanMeter, A. S., Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others

In: PNAS Nexus, pgad199